The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-07-22

liquors is not one of the right
growing out of citizenship of tn
United States"
Mr.. Woods in his work upoi
/ Nuisances says:
The experience of all mankin,
condemns any occupation tina
campers with the public morals
tends to idlenes and the promotion
of evil manners, and anything thai
produces that result finds no en-.
enlargement from the law, but is
universally regarded and condemn.
ed by it as a public nuisance.
Does not the liquor tralir, as 8 !, /
is now and has always been con.
Quoted in Texas, ''tamper with the
public morals?" Does it not tend
to idleness? Does 1t not promote
evil manners?' If SO, this learn
ed author says that the law uniyer-
sally condemns it as a nuisance.
When in the history of the world
did the destruction of an evil or
public nuisance overturn a govern
ment or destroy political liberty ?
Liberty is not license.
We have upon our statute books
in Texas, laws forbidding, as
crimes, and punishing many acts
as obnoxious to the charge of be-
ing invasions of personal liberty,
and certainly as little hurtful with
in themselves as the occupation of
selling intoxicating liquors, such
as; Fighting a duel with deadly
weapons; unlawful practice of med
icine; fighting in public places;
drunkenness in office; drunken
ness in a public place; working on
Sunday; keeping a disorderly
house; dealing in lotteries; rafting
gaming; betting on elections; un-
lawfully selling intoxicating IL
quors; being vagrant; selling un-
wholesome food, drink or medi-
cine.
Many of these. and others of like
character, were offenses, and pun
ished as such by the common
law.
Is it not the right of gentlemen
to fight duel, or to fight eath
other in street, or to win-es.sAI
others money at a game, or to bet
IN an election, or to spend their
money for lottery ticket, or to
,aflie for a watch or to practice
as good as it is to sell |
Has not any man as much |
light to do nothing and be a va
srant as he Is to sell whisky? Is
lie not likely to do as little harm
o the community following or do
ng any of these prohibited things
$ by selling whisky? Are not
hese laws as much sumptuary as
ne forbidding the sale of intoxi-
ating beverages? What lover of
iberty would have them repealed?
1t is claimed that the liquor
rattle should be regulated not pro-
ibited. But why should it be
olerated at all? Is it not, like
rson, theft and murder, an un-
Irrigated evil? As well talk about
instead of prohibiting
he one as the other. If it were
racticable to make a law that
-ould prevent the commission of
left and murder instead of pun ]
ihing the offender after commits
ion, would not laws for their pre- !
ention be passed? {
The history of all the past shows
nat there is no middle ground for
ealing with the liquor traffic. 1t q
Iust be stamped out of existence 6
r left to work its own pleasure. t
Is the most arrogant, the most c
Stunning, and the most lawless {
over in all the land. 1t is a low L
follower Of no party, and yet II a
of all parties to do its t
dding- 1t favors no Legislation
We such as is in its own interests c
ID seeks by all means to defy and t
lllify all laws that are distateful j
1t. 1t is such known enemy b
free government and to a fair a
Hot, that The law requires it on a
Of all occupations to be desisted e
ON on election days, and yet, by n
e influence of its followers, it e.
sumes to control every election. Il
le law condemns and puts on it b
e stigma of disgrace by putting CT
it an onerous and indiscrimina-
u t.. tx. With brazen effrontery-
plants itself everywhere on the p
ost public corners. 1t acknowl- h
ges its degradation by hidingits y
.ad behind q screen, and yet adj Il
rtises its character by the very I
cans it takes to hide il. Ia
In the name of liberty itself at L
eks liberty. Its advocates pro- s.
aim in this canvass that great |
niger comes to libertv and GOOD !: